About this Book

Further Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West is a collection of essays concerned with the origins, development, and theologies of early Eucharistic praying. For students and teachers of liturgy, as well as all who seek solid, up-to-date scholarship on Eucharistic liturgy and theology, this volume provides current research on a variety of Eucharistic prayers in the churches of East and West.

Essays and authors include:

• Balancing Eucharistic Origins in the Work of Gordon Lathrop and Thomas O’Loughlin – Megan Effron

• Shaping the Classical Anaphoras of the Fourth through Sixth Centuries – Nathan P. Chase

• The Heis Theos Acclamations in the Barcelona Papyrus: A Eucharistic Liturgy without the Opening Line of the Christian Anaphoral Dialogue – Arsany Paul

• Chiasmus in the Anaphoras of Addai and Mari and Sharar – Paul Elhallal

• The Egyptian Origins of the Anaphora in Mystagogical Catechesis V ascribed to Cyril of Jerusalem - Maxwell E. Johnson

• The Theology of Sacrifice in the Anaphora of Byzantine Basil – Lucas Christensen

• Authority and Confluence of Traditions in Aksum: The Heritage of the Anaphora of the Apostolic Tradition in the Ethiopian Anaphora of the Apostles – Andrij Hlabse

• Vernacular Translation of the Roman Canon – Julia Canonico

• Igbo Translations of the Roman Canon: Inculturation or the Battle for the Soul of Latin? – Joachim Ozonze

• Recent Thoughts on the Roman Anaphora: Sacrifice in the Canon Missae – Maxwell E. Johnson